On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:53:33AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2001, Marco Gaiarin wrote: > > Exactly same things (and error) with 2.4.4. ;( > This makes me wonder if a new released kernel isn't tested on all > architectures. May be we should spread our knowledge about autobuild > daemons in Debian to the kernel development team.
The stock linux kernel (as distributed by Linus) usually only supports i386 and alpha out-of-the-box because that's what Linus uses. All other architectures needs patches to get them to work, see the answers in these FAQs: http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html#q_4_6 http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s6-6 > Seems to me that Linux-kernel development goes the wrong way :-(. Oh no, it already works this way for years. It is simply not doable for a single person to test a kernel release on all platforms. For example: the ARM port currently supports 73 different wildly architectures. Do you really expect Linus to test them all? Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/
